The 55-page complaint was one of some three dozen to be filed Tuesday on behalf of the victims of the fungal meningitis outbreak. One suit was filed on behalf of 16 Kentucky residents who had sought relief from severe back pain at a Nashville clinic.

More than 60 suits have now been filed in U.S. District Court in Nashville on behalf of local victims of the outbreak. Dozens more have been merged in a case before a federal judge in Boston.

Pruitt, according to the suit, was injected three times in a little over a month with methylprednisolone acetate at the Saint Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgical Center.

Pruitt, 72, was one of 16 patients treated in Tennessee to die in the outbreak. A resident of Goodlettsville, Pruitt retired after a 40-year career at Ambrose Printing Co.

The single suit for 16 Kentucky residents who became ill after treatment at the neurosurgical center was filed by Bowling Green, Ky., lawyers Bob Young and Kyle Roby and the American Center for Law and Justice in Brentwood.

The same Kentucky law firm filed two other suits on behalf of 18 Tennessee residents.

According to the complaints, all 34 patients were referred to the Saint Thomas outpatient center by the Howell Allen Clinic, a part owner of the neurosurgery center.

A separate suit for another Kentucky victim, Sue Eggleston of Russellville, 51, was filed by Nashville attorney Randall Kinnard, who also filed the suit for Pruitt’s family. Eggleston became ill after three steroid shots at the treatment center last year.

Other suits charging negligence, civil conspiracy and violations of the state product liability law were filed on behalf of Herman Mathias and Patricia McCulloch, both of Nashville; Mary Meeker of Dickson; and Janet Noble of Hendersonville. All became ill and are still suffering aftereffects, according to the nearly identical complaints.